outlook task - mark complete on Toodledo - no outlook update?

Anyone else having this problem - I created a task on outlook - it synced to Toodledo - I marked it complete on Toodledo - ran a sync - the Outlook task is still incomplete. I updated the task subject on Toodledo - ran another sync - Outlook task updated and marked complete.

Could this be related to the setting I used of "Ignore existing completed tasks"? I thought that was only to reduce the data synced initially.

Occasionally web site updates seem to sometimes take a couple of seconds to be exposed through the API (although I have not proved this).

Keef, that is actually part of what I was getting at in the deleted part of my previous post. If I make a change on Toodledo, and then immediately sync Pocket Informant with Toodledo, the changes don't come through, and then the task is out of sync until I make another change to it. This would probably be a lot more significant for your sync tool than a mobile app though.

Its funny - I grew up on small, and then large, IBM mainframes - and I am used to things happening when you do them - or, at least, you have to wait until the processing is done, before you get to do something else. Its pretty different now.

I remember running some tests a while back on delicious.com - a bookmark web site. I was testing searches - I would update the comments and tags on a bookmark, then do a search - and it would not find it. Wait a few minutes - do the search again - and find what I had entered. I realized they must have some background index updating going on - while I assumed any index was updated as soon as I clicked save.

This debug message indicates that the application found multiple tasks in Outlook that map to a single Toodledo task, and it chose to sync an incomplete Outlook task over an already matched complete task.

This usually occurs with Outlook recurring tasks, as Outlook actually creates a new, incomplete copy of the task when the recurrence triggers. As this copy also copies the toodledoid field that I use to link Outlook tasks to Tooodledo tasks I need to be able to work out which one is the correct version to sync. I use the heuristic of preferring any match incomplete task over any matched completed one.